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Paris, the City of Lights, is pushing to become a city without so many car lights. Since taking office in 2014, Socialist Mayor Anne Hidalgo has pushed to remove more vehicles, especially gas-powered ones, from the boulevards of Paris, one of Europe’s most congested and smog-laden cities.

Developers brought a federal complaintagainst Defense Secretary James Mattis, challenging the closure and transfer of Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach to allow development of 12,272 residential units and 6.1 million square-feet of commercial space on 5,000 acres “along one of the most congested transportation arteries in the nation.”

Appointing a panel to hold hearings on the issue, the New Jersey Supreme Court suggested Thursday wiping the slate clean for people who were charged years ago with minor municipal offenses like traffic tickets.

Just over a week after its first effort foundered at the Ohio Supreme Court, the city of Toledo brought a constitutional complaint to revive its program of issuing traffic tickets with unmanned cameras.

The estate of a police officer killed by a drunk driver in a wrong-way crash sued two Iowa cities, claiming they were negligent in designing a “confusing” interstate interchange that routes cars to the left of oncoming traffic.

While the Los Angeles suburb of Alhambra remains a family-oriented community, many residents believe it’s only a matter of time before the development boom transforming much of Southern California changes their city – and not necessarily for good.

A federal judge dismissed Monday a class action brought by drivers stopped by an Illinois prosecutor’s “vigilante” police force, ruling that the motorists should have known about their civil rights claims before the independent police unit was ruled illegal.

The small New Jersey town by the George Washington Bridge that banned nonresidents from driving on its streets during rush hour has been sued by a commuter who says it has no right to deny her access to public streets.

A cellphone app that has been shaking up Florida’s traffic-ticket-fighting market this year claims in a federal complaintthat the state bar association is conspiring with a more established competitor to shut it down.

At Thursday’s meeting of California’s Judicial Council, Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye said she would prioritize improving resources for self-represented litigants, making some court services technology-based, and moving traffic cases out of criminal court over the next 10 years.

A massive fire in a yard used to store construction materials caused an interstate bridge to collapse during rush hour in Atlanta on Thursday, throwing Friday’s commute into chaos and leaving officials with little to say about when the roadway will reopen.